The story:This is the Texas @GregAbbott_TX wants. https://t.co/qmjX3WO0ca
— emptywheel (@emptywheel) April 29, 2023
"My understanding is that the victims, they came over to the fence and said 'Hey could [you not do your] shooting out in the yard? We have a young baby that's trying to go to sleep," and he had been drinking and he says 'I'll do what I want to in my front yard,'" San Jacinto County Sheriff Greg Capers told KTRK.
Capers told KTRK the case went from harassment to a shooting very quickly. He said the shooter was drinking that night; police dispatchers initially confirmed the shooter was intoxicated.
He said that authorities believed some of the victims were trying to shield their children -- with bodies found on top of children who were unharmed.
“In my opinion, they were actually trying to take care of the babies and keep them babies alive," Capers told KTRK.
Here’s what he’s referring to:
When authorities arrived at the location, they found several victims shot at the property, police said. Three of the deceased were females and two were males, including the youngest, an 8-year-old boy.
Two female victims were discovered in the bedroom lying on top of two surviving children, authorities told ABC News.
Three minors were located uninjured, but covered in blood. They were transported to a local hospital.
This doesn’t happen in the neighborhoods where Texas lawmakers live, so this is fine:
There's always shootings, there's always shooting," she said to KTRK. "There's always people calling the cops and there's nothing being done."
She said that neighbors would frequently shoot firearms on weekends and holidays and that the sound of gunshots overnight was normal.
"We were in bed and my kids -- I have two babies -- they got scared, and we're like, 'it's normal they're always shooting.'"
O! What a paradise it seems!
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